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Deeper grew Monmouth's frown; his fingers drummed the table absently. Fletcher poured himself wine, his face inscrutable. Grey threw one leg over the other and in a voice that was carefully careless he inquired, "And what of Sidney Clifford?" "He is considering," said Battiscomb. "I was to have seen him again at the end of the month; meanwhile, he would take no resolve."
"You will be when you're grown up," he answered, looking at me critically. "Will you be going to Mrs. Greaves' reception after the dinner?" I asked. "Yes, I suppose so," said Sidney absently. I could see he wasn't thinking of me at all. I wondered if he were thinking of Mrs. Rennie. April Sixth. Oh, something so wonderful has happened. I can hardly believe it.
"Or with the death of Sidney Bolton either," said Hope, also rising and putting on his cap. "What an actor the man is!" "Where are you going?" demanded Sir Frank, yawning. "To the Pyramids. I want to see how Lucy is." "Will you tell her about that confession?" "Not until later. I shall give this to Inspector Date when he arrives. The Professor has made his bed, so he must lie on it.
To his jealous eyes came a vision of that excursion to the hospital. Sidney, all vibrant eagerness, luminous of eye, quick of bosom; and Wilson, sardonically smiling, amused and interested in spite of himself. He drew a long breath, and thrust the note in his pocket. The little house across the way sat square in the sun. The shades of his windows had been lowered against the heat.
'Why is it? What a question! Jane reddened as she tried to look at him with a smile; no words would come to her tongue. 'Do you go anywhere else, besides to to that place? Not often. She had accompanied Miss Lant on a visit to some people in Shooter's Gardens. Sidney bent his brows. A nice spot, Shooter's Gardens. 'The houses are going to be pulled down, I'm glad to say, continued Jane.
Do you dine to-day, by any chance, with Sidney Wilton?" When Endymion returned home this evening, he found a letter from Lady Montfort. It was a month since he had written to her. He was so nervous that he absolutely for a moment could not break the seal, and the palpitation of his heart was almost overpowering.
Meanwhile the brothers were far away, and He who feeds the young ravens made their paths pleasant to their feet. Philip had broken to Sidney the sad news of their mother's death, and Sidney had wept with bitter passion. But children, what can they know of death? Their tears over graves dry sooner than the dews.
Whatever the future has for me, at least I have had something in the past." The hardness had left his tone, and the passionate, bitter ring. There was nothing now but the note of utter sadness. Beatrix trembled for herself, for the fate of her resolve, as she heard it. "But I couldn't hold you, Sidney." "No, dear; perhaps not. But you held me more than you knew.
De Sancy had arrived just as without his knowledge Sidney had been despatched across the channel with the brief mission already mentioned.
Sidney Ormond; and thus, with nothing of royalty or dictatorship about them, the two strolled up the narrow street into the main thoroughfare, and entered their favorite midnight restaurant, where, over a belated meal, they continued the discussion of the African project, which Spence persisted in looking upon as one of the maddest expeditions that had ever come to his knowledge.
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